Special Operations

Covert Ops, espionage, the Team House, with your host, Jack Murphy, and David Park.

Hey everyone.

Welcome to episode 223 of the Teamhouse.

I'm Jack Murphy here with David Park.

Our guest on tonight's show is Andy Stumpf.

Andy served in the SEAL teams as a NCO and then as an officer.

And he's also the host of the cleared hot podcast that I'm sure everyone who watches this show is familiar with Andy and his work.

So Andy, thank you very much for joining us tonight.

Yeah, thank you for having me.

Are we going to do all that stuff that came in the intro?

Like very special operations, espionage, are we going to do that stuff?

Or because that sounds awesome.

We're going to talk about it. All right. We're winging it here tonight, guys. No script. So be prepared. We might do a little improv later. We don't even know. Perfect. Cool, man. So I'm going to start from the top like we do with pretty much all of our guests.

I want to ask you a little bit about your origin story about what your upbringing was like,

how you grew up, and sort of how that took you, propelled you towards the Navy.

Yeah, I mean, there was nothing special about it.

I grew up dead center of the road, middle class in a beach town in what they consider to be northern California.

But when I look at the map, it's still like right in the center, Santa Cruz, just on the north end of the Monterey Bay.

Aggressively average athlete, below average student.

I think my final GPA in high school was about a 1.8,

and I was really reaching for the rim on that one.

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